Persian Isfahan AL104L 504×324

£4,800.00

An exquisite, grand contemporary master workshop Isfahan with Pahlavi-style medallion and corner design on a Shah Abbas field.

Exceedingly fine weave of Kork on cotton foundation. Most intricate, embellished design sustained by the finest weaving technique. The deep, rich burgundy field gives a wonderfully aged feel and is accompanied by contrasting light cream four-corner spandrels. Elongated elegant vines connect the exquisitely delicate floral and leaf motifs. Olive greens and smoky greens highlights bring calm and depth to the design. Darker blackened navy blue and cool blues in the smallest details and curves create greater definition and contrast of the motifs.
A divinely extravagant central medallion that is most interesting to look at. All framed in the gloriously handsome five-lane border as ravishing as the central field.
A true masterpiece from head to toe.

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Isfahan rugs are solely from Persia, weaved exclusively in workshop and master workshops. Price range from high to premium.

The ancient city of Isfahan in central Persia produces what are arguably the most consistently fine wool-pile rugs made anywhere in the world today. Their quality may be matched by individual items from the other major Persian workshop groups, but overall, Isfahan rugs rarely miss the mark of premium quality rugs.
Isfahans are knotted solely on either cotton or silk foundations, with up to 400 Persian knots per square inch, using superb quality (often Kurk/Kork) wool for the pile, which is clipped quite low. The appearance of Isfahans produced in the last 70 years, under the Pahlavi influence, is radically different from those made in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The older rugs tend to employ a richer palette and more varied designs, and since they were made during the Qajar Dynasty, they are sometimes referred to as Qajar-style Isfahan rugs. Contemporary Isfahans place greater importance on technique over artistic flair. The softer, muted colour palette makes them more compatible with Western decorative schemes.

A range of traditional designs are used, such as all over Shah Abbas, vase, tree-of-life and pictorial schemes. Nevertheless, most popular composition by far is based on a circular central medallion (derived from the famous mosque of Shah Lutf Allah in Isfahan) set against an elegantly sculpted field decorated with intricately purling vine, palmette and floral motifs. The most popular colours are blue, white, pale mushroom and beige, but almost every colour and tone may be used, particularly in master workshop items.

Masterworkshop items are made in a wide range of sizes, including extremely large carpets, and are far more varied and innovative in their designs. Standard workshop rugs are generally made in smaller sizes – 6′ x 4′ 183cm x 122cm being the most common – but large room-sized rugs are also made. Both workshop and master workshop items are frequently inlaid with silk, either as outlines on individual motifs or as large segments of the field. Large rugs made entirely out of silk are most rare.

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